Database: Clavis Historicorum Antiquitatis Posterioris (CHAP)

Title(s):

Chronicle of 474
ܟܪܢܝܩܢ
(krunīqun, Chronicle)

Author:

Anonymous (Chronicle of 474)

Period covered:

At least 251-474

Language:

Syriac

State of Preservation:

Fragmentary

Genre:

Remarks:

Pseudo-Zachariah quotes on two occasions an unspecified 'chronicle' as his source of information about the succession of Roman emperors (namely that of Gallus by Volusianus, and that of Leo I by Leo II). According to Greatrex - Phenix - Horn - Brock - Witakowski (2011: 40-43), it was probably a chronicle that the anonymous compiler used as the chronological framework for his work. The chronicle provided most likely regnal years of the Roman emperors and dates expressed in Olympiad years.

Edition - Translation:

Fragments:

Pseudo-Zachariah, Chronicle 2.1, 4.introduction [Brooks 1919 (ed.): 114, 168-169; Brooks 1924 (tr.): 79, 117]

Users:

Zachariah, Pseudo-

Sources:

Bibliography:

E.W. Brooks (1919) (ed.) Historia ecclesiastica Zachariae rhetori vulgo adscripta. Volume One (Corpus scriptorum Christianorum Orientalium, 3.5). Paris.
E.W. Brooks (1924) (ed.) Historia ecclesiastica Zachariae rhetori vulgo adscripta. Volume One (Corpus scriptorum Christianorum Orientalium, 3.5). Paris.
G. Greatrex, R.R. Phenix, C.B. Horn, S. Brock, W. Witakowski (2011) The Chronicle of Pseudo-Zachariah Rhetor: Church and war in Late Antiquity (Translated texts for historians, 55). Liverpool.